The ambitious and exciting Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) is
largely based on a strategy of mass drug administration (MDA) of repeated rounds of�…

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they are endorsed or recommended by the World Health Organization in preference to�…

Background Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is one of the neglected tropical diseases targeted for
global elimination by 2020 and to guide elimination efforts countries have, in recent years�…

Malaria and lymphatic filariasis are two of the most common mosquito-borne parasitic
diseases worldwide which can occur as concomitant human infections while also sharing�…

Mansonella perstans is a vector-borne human filarial nematode, transmitted by tiny blood-
sucking flies (biting midges). It is widespread in many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa and also�…

The current global initiative to eliminate lymphatic filariasis represents one of the largest
mass drug administration programmes ever conceived for the control of a parasitic disease�…

Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) affects over 120 million people in 72 countries, with sub-periodic
filariasis common in the Pacific. Wuchereria bancrofti has three physiological races, each�…

This is the second in a series of five volumes on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the ancestor of
the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. Each volume deals with a�…

To define the clinical spectrum of Ioiasis more precisely and to begin to assess the
immunologic basis for the difference in clinical manifestations between visitors to endemic�…

Formal control programmes do not exist for lymphatic filariasis in much of the endemic world.
The literature on the social, economic and clinical impacts of the disease is so sparse as to�…